St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-24

JOINS the exposed skin With never rulue OF
frill at shoulder, back or bosom, as shown
in this picture. The satin of the one sur
face is smoothed with the satin of the
other, and color only makes contrast. 1t
is observed that with their new spring
gowns the gentler sex have struck also upon
A NEW SPRING WALK.
The fashions in walking change, you
know. as radically as the fashions in dress.
Not long ago the girls, the dear girls took
on a habit of leaning far forward as they
passed along the street, just as though they
had been thrown slightly off their balance,
and were meeting with difficulty in regain
ing an upright position. Then the young
men. or rather the old boys, took up the
same order of gait, the grotesqueness OF
which received a strong addition in the fact
that they carried enormous walking sticks
held out before them as if they were clutch
ing at friendly saplings with which to save
themselves from falling. Disguised with
the imitation, the gentle creatures OF the
softer sex went IN for lower heels, straight
ened up their carriage. and built themselves
out behind with that abomination
they have invented walk
that goes with the hustle. and the imita-
ton of which no man would dare attempt.
AS the right foot goes forward the whole
body is turned with it, which gives the
skirts switch outward on that side. Then,
as the left foot is placed in advance the
figure is turned sharply with it, and the
skirt switches over in that direction. The
effect of girl approaching in this manner
is peculiar. The action is similar to that
which we see in the kind of horses known
as ':racker' This animal as we are all
aware, has habit of stepping simultane-
ously with both feet on the same side of
his body, and if we were clad in skirts and
hustle he would switch his garments as the
girl of the present period switches hers.
OF course, he would not be nearly as grace
= full as she is, but still her gait is SO much
= like his that there is plenty OF excuse for
calling the new movement the racker.
= Our SwellS are just now tempted into one
=; Broadway saloon. am told by the intro
duction of the London barmaid system.
Several handsome. coolly calm bartenders
of the feminine. sex are on duty, after the
genuine English fashion, and the innOva-
ton is expected to take well with our
gilded youth. 1t was at 4 recent charity
fair, by the way, that amateur serving
maids put on the
GARB OF MENIALS
and sold refreshments at the tables of the
occasional restaurant. Sons and daughters
of wealth were on duty there, in interna-
tiOnal costumes. and the disposition was to
make sacrifices of dignity merrily for the
sake of the good cause. But good nature
was shocked when an intoxicated fellow
swayed into the hall, staggered to table,
brought his hands down on it with bang,
and said to the pretty heiress who, in a
white apron, stood by: ''Shay. m'girl, get
a brandy'n soda FIR me. and bring glass OF
something frself."
''You are unmannerly, SIR" she eX-
claimed.
''Betcher life amt" he replied; "what
d'you want, any how? A whole bottle?"
AT that point the daZed man was led out
ONE OF THE BEST LOOKING MEN
who walked Broadway was a cotton broker
who was, is and always will be maSher of
female hearts. Among the most seriously
injured was girl he met at Long Branch
in the latter part of the summer of 1880.
Her infatuation was so great and she pub
lished it so widely that one has but to
mention Lydia to hear some one say. "Oh.
yes; that girl that was SO awfully in love
with Sam. 1t was one of those wild and
combuStible passions that act very much
like a Katherine wheel-make terrible
commotion. send off showers of sparks,
describe dizzy circles, explode at in
ness of splendor, that is sustained but for a
short time and is succeeded by season of
smoke and ashes and final extinction. Dur
ing the existence of the fire works, how
ever, things were lively. The enamored
lady read the papers, and on Sunday. while
the fit was on her. she discovered a colum II
devoted to tattoOing-what had been done at
it, and who did it. She read of various per-
sons anxious to get a living without work
who had submitted their entire anatomies
to the operations of this Chatham street
decorator for dime museum purposes; of
mothers who took their children there and
had ineffaceable marks placed OH them. All
at once the infatuated girl was struck with
an idea. She would go and have some
thing in memory of Sam done to her.
No sooner determined than executed.
She approached the unpleasant
artist, and, exhibiting cabinet
picture of the enslaver, asked if he could
reproduce it over her heart The man
thought he could. and showed her por-
trait he had pricked on his assistants arm
of girl picking flowers. 1t looked SO
much like St. Patrick driving the snakes
out of Ireland that poor Lydia abandoned
that scheme at once. Finally the pair de-
cided that the beloved chaps initials would
be sort of proprietary trade wark very
suitable under the circumstances: and Lydia
barred her handsome arm, DESTROYS of imme-
diately possessing that lovely set of initial
etters.
lyon wear short sleeves sometimes?''
.sked the man.
Certainly, for all tull dress occasions, .
replied the girl.
won't those letters be little awkward?'
After due consideration she concluded
they would. ~
''How would your leg do9" sdggestsathe
tattooer. > % IN
''Excellently well, responded the lad,
In early English. f4 S&
Lydia had her stocking turned down, wa!
requested not to kick. and in short time
rose with the beloved initials forever en-
graved on the whiteneSs of her handsome
leg.
BEFORE THE INFLAMMATION
that always follows the punctures of the
tattOOer's cork-set needles had subsidized Thu
inflammation in the right and left ventriclt
of Lydia'S heart had somewhat abated: but
morning and night, long after ''the fire had
gone out and hearthstone was cold," she
never pulled up stocking without shivel
as those three crimson blue-shaded letters
meet her view. There was no escape-thel
had come to stay. For years she had walked
about with this dread secret under silker
hose. The remembrance of the young
Iady's infatuation was getting a little dull II
her seq, when from another city came
wooing swain. Anxious parents and re
Elective mirrors urged upon her the neces
sity of immediate action. Lydia, long since
emancipated from the thralldom of love
had reached the age of reason. She accepted
the western man, and they became engaged
Not without its sadness was their courtship
however, for some Otficious people diyulget